Patent GB-474440-A (GB)
Title: Amusement apparatus with distribution of coupons automatically, reserve and automatic replacement of the coupons
IPC: G07F17/38
Filed: 1936-01-29
Abstract: 474,440. Coin-freed amusement apparatus. DEBORNE, M. A., and MORPAIN, C. Jan. 29, 1936, No. 2637. Void. Convention date, Jan. 29, 1935. [Class 132 (ii)] [Also in Group XVIII] A circular plate capable of limited movement about a ball joint is manipulated by a player to cause a ball thereon to roll up a ramp on the plate and fall in a predetermined one of a plurality of recesses in a trough concentric with the plate whereupon an article corresponding to the recess is delivered to the player. The circular plate a is adapted to be rocked about a ball joint c through levers l by a handle l<1> and is surrounded by a concentric wheel f rotatably mounted on rollers g on a rail h the upper part F of wheel f having recesses y adjacent the plate and carrying prize articles adjacent each recess. On the plate a ramps b are provided up which the ball must be manipulated to fall into a recess y, unsuccessful balls rolling off the plate a directly into a trough d leading to a shoot e which carries the ball to vertical channel q<1>. Coin action. When a coin is inserted at z, Fig. 6, it closes a contact z<11> to energize a magnet z<1>, which ejects the coin into a storage box. The magnet remains energized over this contact, and a magnet t<11> energized in parallel therewith releases a plate t slidable in the channel q<1> and carried by an endless band s<1>, so that the player by rotating a handle r geared to the band s raises the plate t which carries the ball before it up the channel q<1> from where it rolls down a tube q into a cage u which is carried by a cord u<1> and oounterweighted at v<1>. The extra weight of the ball causes the cage to descend to the plate a and is so made that the ball is then automatically released and the cage elevated by counterweight v<1>. The player then manipulates the plate a. If unsuccessful the ball in passing down the shoot e breaks at e<1> the circuits of the energized relavs which revert to normal. If the ball is lodged in a recess y it depresses a plate y<1> to bridge'contacts y<11>, y<111>, Fig. 6, to energize a motor M, and a magnet f<1>. Fig. 6. The motor then drives a shaft W, Fig. 5, and a forkclutch x actuated by the magnet f<1> causes the motor shaft to drive through a pinion the wheel j. The wheel f is rotated until the ball resting in the recess y comes opposite a slide K when the ball falls through the recess as shown in Fig. 4, releasing both magnet f<1> and the motor. The motor is immediately re-energized by the ball engaging a switch c<1>, and now drives through clutch x cams p. One of the cams p causes a bell member m, slidable on the slide K to move downwards over the prize on the wheel f and at the same time open a window in the apparatus for the player to withdraw his prize ; later the same cam elevates the bell m, and operates an element to raise a reserve prize to the position previously occupied by the delivered prize, a second cam p causing a passage to be formed in wheel f for the reserve prize to pass. Finally a third cam p releases the ball at c<1> whereupon it rolls down the shoot c and breaks the main circuit at e<1> to revert the mechanism to normal.